Interstellar

Written during workshop Chris Kraus

Today. A movie theatre, hall 1. The one I used to work doing the introductions for the films. First close the door after the last person coming in, then walk down the stairs saying: “Good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome in this movie theatre. You are going to watch….”. I always felt like a quizmaster coming down his tv show stairway. Such a good memories to those days.

I even reenacted the stairs scene for my interns today. I walked down the stairs again and gave them my lines. Me and my interns are at a psychiatry and film symposium and we have to film it. The symposium is about the topic space. Space in the larger context of the word. A room/environment, the planets but also the space you take or others take from you. I am standing in the hallway behind my tripod. When the audience arrive, I have to move my tripod and wait till everybody is seated. It feels like a tripod dance. Me going back and forth in the small space between the big staircase, the path and the chairs. I have to be ready when the presenters of the event are starting, so focus.

The first presenter is talking about the movie Interstellar. He will show parts of the movie and discuss it. We are watching a 11-minute clip in 60 minutes time. The video is paused after every minute. But so much is happening in this movie that it is worth discussing every minute of it. The opposite of what is happening in the one I am recording right now. You feel that the audience is a bit annoyed by this way of presenting, they need more space to watch the film and digest the information.